House quizzes 40 applicants on what really happened to Buddy Ebsen
With no patient, House fires a wrong guess on the spot and sets a room of candidates on the original Tin Man's 1938 illness.
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23 moments.
House's new rules: the patient is Osama, and no records survive
Shred lab reports, melt X-rays: House treats his synesthesia patient like a fugitive and lets numbered candidates take turns interviewing her.
Candidates told to wash House's car stage a walkout
A candidate rallies the others to quit over car-washing duty, then returns alone, having only meant to thin the competition.
A candidate defibrillates the patient inside a hyperbaric chamber
During carbon monoxide treatment the patient goes into V-fib; one candidate uses paddles in the oxygen chamber and sets her on fire.
House calls a bystander a cutthroat little pixie and dubs a 21-year-old Scooter
House dissects the chamber fire, halts a Takayasu versus Whipple's spat, and gives the cardiomyopathy idea to the youngest candidate.
'Call me 13': a candidate refuses to get invested
Two candidates jostle over Scooter's echo and one asks to be called 13; House scolds them, teaches diagnosis in transit and rides alone.
House fires the snitch, then fires the one who tattled on the snitch
House works out who told Cuddy, fires a second candidate for tattling twice, and dares them to run tests without running tests.
House recruits a Mormon candidate as the no-drinker control
House spots a Brigham Young ring and needs a non-drinker for the tequila test; he argues the candidate around with an ass in a pit on the Sabbath.
The fix to hide surgical scars from NASA: a breast augmentation
Candidates brainstorm cons and ether; the winner is cosmetic surgery with incisions near the lungs. House tells Greta dreamers get laughed at.
House cuts nine candidates and learns Scooter never went to med school
House reads out the losing numbers, then keeps 26 back: a 30-year admissions officer with no diploma who gets offered a job as assistant.
House shows up an hour late to see who'd put up with it
The candidates debate leaving; House arrives with an SMA patient and turns the case into a contest: the team that finds what's threatening him keeps their jobs.
Men versus women, and House christens Cutthroat Bitch
House splits the candidates by sex with a run of nicknames; one woman asks to join the men's side and earns her official title.
Cuddy yells at House for turning patient care into a competition
House hides in an exam room so Cuddy can vent, argues competition beats single cells, and insists it would be irresponsible not to know the answer.
A defector joins the men and sets bugs biting the patient
A woman candidate trades a former fellow's trick for a spot on the men's team; their xenodiagnosis bugs are on the patient when he starts choking.
House reads the candidates' lives aloud, then puts the men in the penalty box
House calls out an engaged ex-Doctors Without Borders candidate, misreads Thirteen, reveals one man isn't a real doctor, and benches the men.
House interrogates Thirteen, who admits she's hiding everything
The tilt table proves the women right and the patient enjoys the ride; House turns the report into a grilling about Thirteen's secrets.
House's tribal council fires the men's team
Survivor-style, House fires the men for losing and for talking, waves off their scleroderma theory, and bids farewell to Ridiculously Old Fraud.
House gets out of bed for a dead patient and explains who he called
Told Stark is dead, House insists that isn't a diagnosis; leaning on a candidate, he explains he chose the one who'd lose most if he died.
House lectures the candidate who left the pills out, then keeps them
Threadworms confirm the original diagnosis; the candidate replays the mistake and asks to be fired, but House says a lecture means they stay.
House briefs his 'angels' by speakerphone while Bosley fetches coffee
Over a whipped mocha, House briefs his 'angels', mixes up Amber and Thirteen, and hands out new nicknames, including one for Cole.
House orders Bosley to call people idiots, then orders a grave dug up
House uses the non-doctor as a mouthpiece for insults, loves an old mad cow lead, and wants a brain sample from a buried man, court order or not.
Graveyard shift: the candidates dig up a body and probe Thirteen
Nobody wants to dig, a latecomer arrives with donuts, Thirteen is accused of hiding everything on purpose, and the corpse is in backwards.
The flower ceremony: a planted dog collar and Henry's exit
House hands out peonies, calls the planted dog collar a beautiful overreach, and lets Henry go.